adobe

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, adobe sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the second

Anagrams

1abode

One letter away

3adore, adobo

• nounthe clay from which adobe bricks are made
• nounsun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 d ow1 b iy0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• toby
• doby

One other word use exactly these letters: abode.

The whole set on one page.

• adore
• adobo
• adoze

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AD656
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting A

Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.